Setup > About the Subjects screen > Setting up Surpass Copilot

Setting up Surpass Copilot

Surpass Copilot can help item authors create and improve their distractor answer options for Multiple Choice questions. It is configurable at subject-level, and subject owners can provide item authors with some default additional context/instruction to help Surpass Copilot generate more specific and accurate answer options.

For information on how item authors can use Surpass Copilot in Item Authoring, read ‘Generating answer options using Surpass Copilot’ in Creating a Multiple Choice question.

NOTE: Surpass Copilot will be able to generate complete Multiple Choice questions including question stems, answer options, and correct answers from Surpass release 25.1. Read Setting up Surpass Copilot (25.1) and Generating Multiple Choice questions with Surpass Copilot for more information.

Please note that with this additional functionality from release 25.1, Copilot will no longer be available in Surpass by default. Contact your Surpass Customer Success Manager if you are interested in using this functionality.

IMPORTANT: AI is prone to hallucination. It is essential you review any generated content before using it in a live test.

This article explains how to enable Surpass Copilot and assign default Surpass Copilot additional context/instruction for a subject in the Subjects screen of Setup.

1. Go to the Subjects screen in Setup

To view the Subjects screen in Setup, go to Setup > Subjects.

TIP: For more information about the Subjects screen, read About the Subjects screen in Setup.

2. Choose a subject in the Subjects list

Choose a subject in the Subjects list.

3. Select Edit in the Surpass Copilot panel

The Surpass Copilot panel displays the chosen subject’s Surpass Copilot settings.

Select Edit to view and edit the Surpass Copilot settings.

4. Configure Surpass Copilot settings

The Surpass Copilot dialog displays the available settings for Surpass Copilot.

To enable Surpass Copilot, select the Enabled checkbox.

Assigning additional context/instruction

You can provide default additional context/instruction in the Additional Context/Instruction field to help Surpass Copilot generate more specific and accurate answer options.

EXAMPLE: If all questions in your subject are regarding 20th century American literature, you could request that Surpass Copilot only returns novels written by American authors between 1900 and 1999. Surpass Copilot should return such answer options as (but not limited to) ‘Catcher in the Rye’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, and ‘The Bell Jar’.